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Work my hands in the soil, what's the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood.

Don McLean

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Don McLean
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: October 2
Composer
Guitarist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
New Rochelle
New York
Donald McLean III
Toil
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Dust
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Hills of forest green where the mountains touch the sky, a dream come true, I'll live there til I die.
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I like to bring my audience on a journey during my 90 minute concert. I will tell stories every few songs about the creation of a tune etc. and it gives the listener a glimpse inside my songs and then as you get to the last half hour you pick up the pace and work harder and get more into the show. It's all about stagecraft.
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The kids today all seem to think they should be stars, but I wasn't brought up that way.
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I had asthma when I was a kid, asthma so bad that it would turn into pneumonia and I almost died several times. Nobody knew why back then, but now it's obvious.
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A long long time ago, I can still remember how that music use to make me smile.
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In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.
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When I go on the road now, which is less than before, but still more than I'd like to, I think of myself primarily as a singer. Not a songwriter, not a celebrity, just a man who likes to sing.
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I'm glad that my music has helped other people as it's helped me. It makes me glad that I did what I did with my life.
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I met a girl who sang the blues and I asked her for some happy news, but she just smiled and turned away. And the three men I admire most, The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost, They caught the last train to the coast The day the music died.
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I don't relate to what's left of the music business. There doesn't seem to be any point to it anymore. The business that I grew up in and loved, we made records a different way - there were record companies, there were stores where you could buy albums.
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Drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry.
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Helter skelter in a summer swelter.
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I am what I do, and that's partly why I don't want to give up singing. But when I can't sing well, I will.
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That's the hard thing - getting started. You get started for a long time until you finally get to this point where people call you an icon or whatever they call you. It's nice. Suddenly the audience is with you more and they help you along and it's not so much that you have to do everything.
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Something touched me deep inside The day the music died.
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As you sell your soul and sow your seeds, and you wound yourself and your loved ones bleed. And your habits grow and your conscience feeds, on all that you thought you should be.
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Bad news on the doorstepI couldn’t take one more step
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Do you believe in rock 'n roll? Can music save your mortal soul?
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When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.
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